An Assessment of the Impacts of Sri Lanka’s Programme for School Improvement and School Report Card Programme on Students’ Academic Progress.
This paper examines two education programmes in Sri Lanka: the Programme for School Improvement (PSI), which decentralises decision-making power, and the School Report Card Programme (SRCP), which was designed to provide parents and other community members with information on the characteristics and...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 50; no. 12; pp. 1647 - 1670 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
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